One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.