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.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.