We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.