It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'