Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

I and me are always too deeply in conversation.

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.