Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Evaluation is creation: hear it, you creators! Evaluating is itself the most valuable treasure of all that we value. It is only through evaluation that value exists: and without evaluation the nut of existence would be hollow. Hear it, you creators!

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.