The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability.

The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

We can destroy only as creators

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.