Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!