Said ye ever Yea to one joy? O my friends, then said ye Yea also unto ALL woe. All things are enlinked, enlaced and enamoured.
Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.
Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?
When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it – what it costs us.
A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
A very popular error: having the courage of one’s convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one’s convictions.
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else’s.
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.