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

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

The melancholia of everything completed!

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

Whoever no longer finds greatness in God no longer finds it anywhere--he must either deny it or create it.

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!