Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.