People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation.

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.