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

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.