When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.