Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

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

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions.