"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the wretchedness of the vanquished.