How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

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?

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.