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.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we would wish them to be.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.