Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it.

Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.