Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

Only ideas won by walking have any value.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.