Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.