To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.

Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?

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.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.