Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

But say, my brothers, what can the child do that even the lion could not do? Why must the preying lion still become a child? The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a sacred 'Yes.' For the game of creation, my brothers, a sacred 'Yes' is needed: the spirit now wills his own will, and he who had been lost to the world now conquers his own world.

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge.