“ I am unaware of anyone ... seriously suggesting ... biological features of the region's peoples that might have contributed. ”

“Life is everything. Life is God. Everything changes and moves and that movement is God. And while there is life there is joy in consciousness of the divine. To love life is to love God.”

“Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

““But where were the Brahmans, where the priests, where the wise men or penitents, who had succeeded in not just knowing this deepest of all knowledge but also to live it?””

““Listen, then, he said; I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger.””

“For we carry our fate with us — and it carries us. ”

“The heart is able to bury deep and well what is urgently desires to forget.”

“The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.”

“Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”

“But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them.”

“"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."”

“Necessity is a violent school-mistress.”

““There are two situations in which you can just be you: The first situation is when you’re alone in a room.””

“In the name of the former and of the latter and of their holocaust. Allmen.”

“Choose what's best.—Best is what benefits me. ”

“Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.”

“There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.”

“Coming events cast their shadows before.”

“He whose daily life has been a rounded whole, is easy in his mind.”

“The relationship between the individual and God, the God-relationship, is the conscience.”

“Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own.”

“ “Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories.””

“The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.”

“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”

““They knew everything, the Brahmans and their holy books, they knew everything, they had taken care of everything and of more than everything, the creation of the world, the origin of speech, of food, of inhaling, of exhaling, the arrangement of the senses, the acts of the gods, they knew infinitely much—but was it valuable to know all of this, not knowing that one and only thing, the most important thing, the solely important thing?””

“This village belongs to the Castle, and whoever lives here or passes the night here does so in a manner of speaking in the Castle itself. Nobody may do that without the Count's permission.”

““Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.””

“The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.”

“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.”