Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

...the only psychologist from whom I have anything to learn.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.