The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.

Man is something to be surpassed.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Possessions are usually diminished by possession.

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world.