There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body.

Energy wasted on negative ends.

One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.