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

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.