Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.