There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

The free man is a warrior.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.