The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons.

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return perhaps something for something of himself - that he gave up in order to have more here or at least to feel that he has "more".

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.