There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

There's no defense against stupidity.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.