One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - "holy" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i.

I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.