Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.