One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.