Certitude drives people mad.

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

The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

Let us guard against saying that there are laws in nature. There are merely necessities: there is no one who commands, no one whoobeys, no one who transgresses. Once you understand that there are no purposes, then you also understand that nothing is accidental: for it is only in a world of purposes that the word "accident" makes sense.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.