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

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.