As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!

Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.

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

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.