Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the "productive" man there is still a higher type.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.