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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

Those who show pity and are always ready to help during times of trouble are seldom the same ones who rejoice in our joy: when others are happy they have nothing to do, they become superfluous and lose their feeling of superiority, and so they easily show their displeasure.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.