If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters.

But questions that don’t answer themselves at the very moment of their asking are never answered.

What is gayer than believing in a household god?

In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.