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.

Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.