A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned

Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.