Human, all too human.

[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.

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

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs