In the end one only experiences oneself.

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.

The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.