The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

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

The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

I won't give up the diary again. I must hold on here, it is the only place I can.

The existence of the writer is an argument against the existence of the soul, for the soul has obviously taken flight from the real ego, but not improved itself, only become a writer.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.