So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?