Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised. It is easy to think that by making a promise you have at least done part of what you promised to do, as if the promise itself were something of value. Not at all! In fact, when you do not do what you promise, it is a long way back to the truth.

Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.