We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

Everyone can afford to give away a smile.

Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent.

Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit