Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

This is the miracle of life: that each person who heeds him or herself knows what no scientist can ever know: who he or she is.

Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.