Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.