The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education.
If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
Every offense is avenged on earth.
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.