One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

Pity makes suffering contagious.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.