Whoever has not two-thirds of his time to himself, is a slave.

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. - What does not destroy makes me stronger.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.