Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

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.

I no longer know If I wish to drown myself in love, vodka or the sea.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.