Sit as little as possible; give no credence to any thought that was not born outdoors while one moved about freely - in which the muscles are not celebrating a feast, too: all prejudices come from the intestines. The sedentary life - as I have said once before - is the real sin against the holy spirit.

Faith is the mightiest force that man has at his command. It impels human beings to greatness in thought and word and deed.

In the end things must be as they are and have always been - the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end: what can be loved in man is that he is an overture and a going under.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.