He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty -he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world -alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.