It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

You know a moment is important when it is making your mind go numb with beauty.

Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

"What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching."

The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.