One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.

I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.