The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

When we stand the truth on its head we generally fail to notice that our head is not standing where it should be standing either.

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.