What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.

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

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.