Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.

One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.