There are three things that cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

Just as the bee takes the nectar and leaves without damaging the color or scent of the flowers, so should the sage act in a village.

When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore.

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.