Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

We only hear questions that we are able to answer.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.