One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

Great intellects are skeptical.