I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

The consequence is that every man comes to know himself solely in terms of his power for defence and attack.

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.