you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

Life, and you, and I, and all of us together became for a while interesing to ourselves once more.

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.