The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.