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

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.