I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.

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

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.