Priests ... these turkey-cocks of God.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?