As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.