Buddha says: "Do not flatter your benefactor!". Let one repeat this saying in a Christian church : it immediately purifies the air of everything Christian.

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.