I have never fought in such a way as to say: I am the true Christian, others are not Christians.

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?

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

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.