...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

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.