Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.