Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.