With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.

If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

Everyone looks the same to me in a photograph: stupid.

No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.

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

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?