"I was alone, but I had my arm, and its strength, and the Gorean blade." - 6:90 "In all cultures there are the lonely ones, the solitary walkers, those who climb the mountains, and look upon the world, and wonder." - 13:333 "Many Earth moralities encourage resignation and accommodation; Gorean morality is bent more toward conquest and defiance; many Earth moralities encourage tenderness, pity and gentleness, sweetness; Gorean morality encourages honor, courage, hardness and strength. To Gorean morality many Earth moralities might ask, 'Why so hard?' To these Earth moralities, the Gorean ethos might ask, 'Why so soft?'" - 9:8 "The morality of slaves says, 'You are equal to me; we are both the same;' the morality of masters says, 'We are not equal; we are not the same; become equal to me; then we will be the same.' The morality of slaves reduces all to bondage; the morality of masters encourages all to attain, if they can, the heights of freedom." - 9:8 "High among his duties is his duty to be true to himself, his duty to be a man.
The denial of his manhood, then, by a man, is not only irrational, but morally pernicious. Men have not only a right to preserve their manhood, but a duty to do so." - 16:153 "'Yes,' he said, 'some men make empires, and others would destroy them.'
'Which is noblest?' I asked.
'I think,' said Bila Huruma, 'it is better to build than it is to destroy.'
'Even though one's work may fall into ruin?' I inquired.
'Yes,' said Bila Huruma. 'Even though one's work may fall into ruin.'" - 13:448 "The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
- Aristotle "All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established."
- Aristotle "Just because you are a character, does not mean you have character."

"But that a tree may become great, it must strike hard roots around hard rocks."
- Nietzsche "'Why so hard?' the kitchen coal once said to the diamond. 'After all, are we not close kin?'
Why so soft? O, my brothers, thus I ask you: are you not after all my brothers?
Why so soft, so pliant and yielding? Why is there so much denial, self-denial, in your hearts? So little destiny in your eyes?
And if you do not want to be destinies and inexorable ones, how can you one day triumph with me.
And if your hardness does not wish to flash and cut and cut through, how can you one day create with me?
For all creators are hard. And it must seem blessedness to you to impress your hand on millennia as on bronze-harder than bronze, nobler than bronze. Only the noblest is altogether hard.
This new table, O my bothers, I place over you: become hard!"
- Nietzsche "I teach you of the overman. Man is something that should be overcome. What have you done to overcome him? All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughing stock or a painful embarassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughing stock or a painful embarassment."
- Nietzsche "Step out of your cave. The world awaits you like a garden. The wind is playing with heavy fragrances that want to get to you, and all the brooks would run after you... Step out of your cave. All things would be your physicians."
- Nietzsche "Well then, they still sleep, these higher men, while I am awake - these are not my proper companions. It is not for them that I wait here in my mountains. I want to go to my work, to my day - but they do not understand the signs of my morning - my stride is for them no summons to awaken. They will sleep in my cave, their dream still drinks of my drunken songs. The ear that listens for me, the heedful ear is lacking in their limbs. Thus spoke Zarathustra, and he left his cave, glowing and strong as a morning sun that comes out of dark mountains."
- Nietzsche