I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.