Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice.

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

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

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding