One should only question gods where none but gods can reply.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air.

I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.