In A Certain State It Is Indecent

I Know No Other Way To Associate With Great Tasks Than As Play: As A Sign Of Greatness, This Is An Essential Presupposition.

I Devote Myself To What I Love The Most, And For This Very Reason I Hesitate To Designate It With Lofty Words: I Do Not Want To Risk Believing That It Is A Sublime Compulsion, A Law, Which I Obey: I Love What I Love The Most Too Much To Wish To Appear To It As One Compelled.

Ye Shall Be Those Whose Eyes Ever Seek For An Enemy - For Your Enemy. And With Some Of You There Is Hatred At First Sight.

What A Dissimilarity We See In Walking, Swimming, And Flying. And Yet It Is One And The Same Motion: It Is Just That The Load- Bearing Capacity Of The Earth Differs From That Of The Water, And That That Of The Water Differs From That Of The Air! Thus We Should Also Learn To Fly As Thinkers--and Not Imagine That We Are Thereby Becoming Idle Dreamers!

The Task Is Not To Overcome Opponents In General But Only Those Opponents Against Whom One Has To Summon All One's Strength, One's Skill And One's Swordsmanship-in Fact To Master Opponents Who Are One's Equals.