Soul

“The soul takes on the color of your thoughts.”

“Dig within yourself. Within lies the wellspring of good, and it can always flow again if you keep digging.”

“People look for retreats: in the country, by the sea, in the mountains. Yet you are free to retreat into yourself at any hour.”

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”

“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”

“You must still have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“What does your conscience say? You shall become the one you are.”

“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

“Nothing in the world, nor even beyond it, can possibly be conceived as good without limitation, except a good will.”

“You travel far and change countries, but you take yourself along everywhere.”

“People become sociable out of poverty of self.”

“A human being is a mystery. It must be unravelled, and whoever spends a life at it has not wasted their time.”

“Whoever lies to themselves ends up losing the ability to tell anything apart.”

“A person does not grow through happiness. They grow through what they have carried.”

“How absurd not to flee your own conduct, which is possible, and to flee another's, which is not.”

“Look within. There is the source of good, and it will ever bubble up if you will ever dig.”

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

“One who is everywhere owns nothing. One who is at home in themselves lacks nothing.”

“No one is free who is not master of themselves.”

“You must still have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster.”

“Solitude is the price one pays for being oneself.”

“What a person is in themselves, what accompanies them into solitude, matters more than all they possess.”

“Two things fill the mind with ever new wonder: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”

“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

“Man is a mystery. It must be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life at it, do not say you wasted your time.”

“One who lies to themselves and listens to their own lie comes to know no truth at all.”

“Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”

“A man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.”

“The worth of a man lies not in what he owns, but in what he is.”

“He who knows others is clever. He who knows himself is wise.”

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”

“The heart has its reasons which reason does not know.”

“A man is literally what he thinks. His character is the sum of all his thoughts.”