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.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

If one seeks relief from unbearable pressure, one is to eat hashish.