To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

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

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

When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Whoever gives advice to the sick gains a sense of superiority over them, no matter whether his advice is accepted or rejected. That is why sick people who are sensitive and proud hate their advisors even more than their illnesses.

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.