Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

Sensuality often hastens the "Growth of Love" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.