The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.