We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

By losing your goal, You have lost your way.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.