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

"The dialectic of despair is this, that the despairing self is unable to get rid of itself."

"Despair is the sickness unto death, this tormenting contradiction, this sickness in the self; it is to be eternally dying, to die and yet not die, to die the death."

"The highest task of a human being is to understand himself."

"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a major…"