There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

We are all afraid of the truth.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd.