There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths.

Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.

The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.

It is no doubt possible to fly--but first you must know how to dance like an angel.

The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth.