"The highest good that any man can attain is to be himself."

"The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [i…"

"Comparison is the end of happiness and the beginning of dissatisfaction."

"The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off as quietly as if it were nothing at all."

"The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply: Create silence! Bring men to silence!"