There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view.

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?

At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!