Be that self which one truly is.

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

It takes moral courage to grieve; it requires religious courage to rejoice.

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.