When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

Happiness is a fata morgana. the only way to not end up unhappy is to not long for happiness.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.