You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.