Can this be endured at all? Won't people kill themselves afterwards?

Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.