Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.