Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

The hour-hand of life.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?