The question is asked in ignorance, by one who does not even know what can have led him to ask it.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.

Don't you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.