You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other.

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.