First principle: one must need strength, otherwise one will never have it. Twilight of the Idols

The sun is the width of a human foot. Fragments

Put all your eggs in one basket -- and watch that basket! The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

“They knew everything, the Brahmans and their holy books, they knew everything, they had taken care of everything and of more than everything, the creation of the world, the origin of speech, of food, of inhaling, of exhaling, the arrangement of the senses, the acts of the gods, they knew infinitely much—but was it valuable to know all of this, not knowing that one and only thing, the most important thing, the solely important thing?” Siddhartha