The intoxication of self-feeling is the most intense, and the height of this intoxication is most admired. Love and friendship are the very height of self-feeling, the I intoxicated in the other-I. The more securely the two I's come together to become one I, the more this united I selfishly cuts itself off from all others.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

Spiritual love, on the other hand, takes away from myself all natural determinants and all self-love. Therefore love for my neighbor cannot make me one with th…

The truth is a trap: you can not get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.