"This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth. I am not concerned whether you pay attention to what I say or not. I want to do a certain thing in the world and I am going to do...
"To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to that thing. You attribute a quality to an environment, to an experience, only when you want to derive something from it, when you...
"We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free."
"Man has no permanent and unchangeable I. Every thought, every mood, every desire, every sensation, says 'I'."
"Patience is the mother of will."
"Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not."
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
