Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

The relatives of a suicide hold it against him that out of consideration for their reputation he did not remain alive.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome