This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
The doer alone learneth.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
Art is the proper task of life.
Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.