One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.

Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.