It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.
Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair but to he who does not concern us at all.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
Speaking generally punishment hardens and numbs it produces concentration it sharpens the consciousness of alienation it strengthens the power of resistance.
We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.
Man is the cruelest animal.
So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play.
We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.
There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
When we observe how some people know how to manage their experiences--their insignificant, everyday experiences--so that they become an arable soil that bears fruit three times a year, while others--a...
Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood