You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.