"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really ought to have known before beginning."

"To live—is not that just endeavouring to be otherwise than this Nature? Is not living valuing, preferring, being unjust, being limited, endeavouring to be different?"

"The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison."

"He who has seen the world as a whole, can it be that he has not also seen it as a joke?"

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."