The dyed-in-the-wool teacher takes everything seriously only with respect to his students--himself included.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

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).

This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.