Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Certitude drives people mad.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.