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

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.