I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth.

Why do we complain about the Fall? It is not on its account that we were expelled from Paradise, but on account of the Tree of Life, lest we might eat of it.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.