One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.