Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the ap...
«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.» «You have ...
He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet...
You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.
This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.
The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.
Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cann...
She could not have been born gray. Her color, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixed nature, dark and clear right through, like Ba...
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Lik...
George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.
