Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!

If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself.

But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.