Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.