You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.