Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt.

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!