I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn't merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.