What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.