Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.