Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.