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.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle

Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.