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!

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".

No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.