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.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.