Unresolved dissonances between the characters and dispositions of the parents continue to reverberate in the nature of the child and make up the history of its inner sufferings.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.