"Zarathustra has gone a long way on the path of solitude. He has attended the school of suffering."

“What ought we to do ?” you ask me. You ask me time and time again, and yourselves as well. “Doing” — action — is so important to you..."

"Nietzsche, therefore, never set up house with knowledge so as to economise and preserve; he built no spiritual home over his head."

"The achievement of this Orphic poetry is to create the peace, trust, and sensitivity in which man can listen to this music of nature..."

"Of that band of martyrs, .. the one whose tragedy most closely approaches Rimbaud's is Van Gogh."

"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child."

"A void surrounded him, an awe-inspiring silence; no hermit or anchorite in the desert was ever more abandoned."

« “No man is an island,” said John Donne. I feel we are all islands — in a common sea. »

"S. Augustine. : You are the victim of a terrible plague of the soul — melancholy ; which the moderns call accidie..."

"Civilization, our drug, has so poisoned us that our dependence on it is an addiction, a mixture of ecstasy and curse."

"In fact, for solid happiness and peace, there are none more favored than those blessed with a master-passion and a monopolizing work."

"The same book in the hand, the same pen between the fingers, the same conversation on the lips, and the same automobile instead of feet."

"Only transcendence can make this questionable life good, the world beautiful, and existence itself a fulfilment."

"Living thus, year in and year out, .. remote from the nature that is outside them, and no less remote from the nature that is within."

"Transformational Positivity, he says, is the future of organizational change. Optimism can and must become a permanent state of mind."

"Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior."

"When we are not alone when we are on our own, then we have achieved solitude."

"When we are depressed we may say we are dispirited; we have lost the energy for the journey..."

"Reading can easily be nothing more than a way to kill time; but if it is calculated and intense, it is a steady extension of one's life."

"Anxiety is inescapable, anxiety is a part of all our lives. Anxiety is the source of all creativity."

"May the Dragon of Envy be far from us, and the Swan of Imprudence, the Cassiopeia of Vanity, the Andromeda of Laziness..."

"What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."

"The same processes the alchemists employed in contemplation of the transmutation of metals can be used to bring union to the self."

"Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach, waiting for a gift from the sea."