“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Tethered heart, free spirit.--If one tethers one's heart severely and imprisons it, one can give one's spirit many liberties.”

“Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon nod off.”

“Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!Once you were young──now you are even younger.”

“One should not go into churches if one wishes to breathe pure air.”

“To become what one is, one must not have the faintest notion of what one is... The whole surface of consciousness - for consciousness -is- a surface - must be kept clear of all great imperatives. Beware even of every great word, every great pose! So many dangers that the instinct comes too soon to "understand itself" --.Meanwhile, the organizing idea that is destined to rule keeps growing deep down - it begins to command, slowly it leads us back from side roads and wrong roads; it prepares single qualities and fitnesses that will one day prove to be indispensable as a means toward a whole - one by one, it trains all subservient capacities before giving any hint of the dominant task, "goal," "aim," or "meaning.”

“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is one which ought to be studied”