One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth.

Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies