Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'.

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh.