World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this.

You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Thought is the strongest thing we have.