Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

And nevertheless I have loved certain of my masters, and those strangely intimate though elusive relations existing between student and teacher, and the Sirens singing somewhere within the cracked voice of him who is first to reveal a new idea. The greatest seducer was not Alcibiades, afterall, it was Socrates.

For my part I have sought liberty more than power, and power only because it can lead to freedom. What interested me was not a philosophy of the free man (all who try that have proved tiresome), but a technique: I hoped to discover the hinge where our will meets and moves with destiny, and where discipline strengthens, instead of restraining, our nature.

Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.

Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.

If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory." Translation by David Downie

To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the earth.