Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

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

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.