Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner