Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.