I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.