A human being who strives for something great considers everyone he meets on his way either as a means or as a delay and obstacle--or as a temporary resting place. Beyond Good and Evil

The rational and the irrational appear such in a different way to different persons, just as the good and the bad, the profitable and the unprofitable. Discourses

To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference. Book VIII

“Siddhartha learned a great deal from the Samanas; he learned many ways of losing the Self. He traveled along the path of self-denial through pain, through voluntary suffering and conquering of pain, through hunger, thirst and fatigue. He traveled the way of self-denial through meditation, through the emptying of the mind through all images. Along these and other paths did he learn to travel. He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it.” Siddhartha