One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.