"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it? So that it will make us h…"

"The true way goes over a rope, not stretched aloft but close to the ground. It seems intended more to make one stumble than to be walked upon."

"I can choose to be an animal, a plant, a stone, a star; it is all the same to me."

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

"The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than the rationalization of a man who wants to rest for a moment."