"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"
"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
"If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs."
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"