I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

To the good warrior soundeth "thou shalt" pleasanter than "I will." And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you.