What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.