What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.