Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.