Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

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.

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.