When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

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.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .