It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.