What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case?

The objective of all human arrangements is through distracting one's thoughts to cease to be aware of life.

Think before you speak, your words could hurt someone's feeling more than you intended it to.