Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

Every experience has its element of magic.

But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

He had thought more than other men, and in matters of the intellect he had that calm objectivity, that certainty of thought and knowledge, such as only really intellectual men have, who have no axe to grind, who never wish to shine, or to talk others down, or to appear always in the right.