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

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Some men are born posthumously.