Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world.
Only the ideas that we actually live are of any value.
Each of us has to find out for himself what is permitted and what is forbidden — forbidden for him. It’s possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. And vice versa.
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
We ought not to consider the opinions of those sects as naïve as they appear from the rationalist point of view.
We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us.
Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws.
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.