The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.