All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes …

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural w…

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.