Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds.

He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.

With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view.