[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.