“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”

“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”

“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

“All things flow nothing abides.”

“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”

“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”