The ‘kingdom of Heaven’ is a condition of the heart – not something that comes ‘upon the earth’ or ‘after death.’
The text has disappeared under the interpretation.
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.
Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?
The wreckage of stars – I built a world from this wreckage.
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.
I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.
One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong.
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
These small things – nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness – are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous – a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.
Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.