Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile.

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.