Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.