there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.

Sometimes we remain true to a cause simply because its opponents are unfailingly tasteless.

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

Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.