We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?