There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them.

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.