Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

All parties attempt to represent important things that have developed outside themselves as unimportant, and where they fail in this they assail those things all the more bitterly the more admirable they are.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.