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.

What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.