It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.