When an idea is just rising on the horizon, the soul's temperature with respect to it is usually very cold. Only gradually does the idea develop its warmth, and it is hottest (which is to say, exerting its greatest influence) when belief in the idea is already once again in decline.

A man who is very busy seldom changes his opinions.

Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace.

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

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

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves