Heaping glowing coals on another person's head is usually misunderstood and comes to nothing because the other person knows just as well that he is in the right and has also given some thought on his own part to heaping coals.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.