Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.