I teach the No to all that makes weak--that exhausts. I teach the Yes to all that strengthens, that stores up strength, that pride.

The lie is a condition of life.

The English are the people of consummate cant.

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Human, all too human.

I am no man, I am dynamite.