Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?