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Thou art not for the earth, nor for the Heaven the world is for thee, thou art not for the world.

When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of “eternity”; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

Anatomy is destiny.

Man is not made for defeat.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one’s own efforts.

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.