In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.

However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil.