An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.