For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole – there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole…But nothing exists apart from the whole!

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.