It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.

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

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

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.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.