Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

But people will laugh at all sorts of things.