They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

The crows maintain that a single crow could destroy the heavens. There is no doubt of that, but it proves nothing against the heavens, for heaven simply means: the impossibility of crows.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.