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

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?