We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.