All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

How can a man become great if he does not feel in himself the force and the will to inflict great pain.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: ‘What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?