On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.