There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

Convictions are prisons.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.