Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.