In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.