The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.