People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!

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

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.