Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.