Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.