Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.