Religion is caught, not taught.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.