A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.