I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.