Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

Only a few know, how much one must know, to know how little one knows

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

[W]hat alone has value is the use to which life is put and the end to which it is directed. The value of life has to be created by man, it cannot be obtained through luck but only through wisdom. He who is anxiously concerned over losing his life will never enjoy life.

Nur dem, der Glück verachtet, wird Erkenntnis.

Die Dinge haben nur den Wert, den man ihnen verleiht.

"There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.

Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.

Do you know that the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated, since it is a necessity prejudiced in its own favor. ...There is plenty more life demanding to be born. ...He was worth nothing to the world. The supply is too large.

We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others.

Wenn ich nur dasjenige weiß, und von ihm überzeugt bin, was ich selbst gefunden, – nur dasjenige wirklich kenne, was ich selbst erfahren habe, so kann ich in der That nicht sagen, daß ich über meine Bestimmung das Geringste wisse; ich weiß blos, was Andre darüber zu wissen behaupten.

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
As souls only understand souls.