Every profound spirit needs a mask.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

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.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.