Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

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.

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.