Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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

He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

No one can crave what truly harms him.