No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

Precisely this is godliness--that there are gods, but no God.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.