At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

However closely people are attached to one another, their mutual horizon nonetheless includes all four compass directions, and nowand again they notice it.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.