The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.