Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up.

Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!