For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

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.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.