How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

The free man is a warrior.