Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.