Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.