Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.
A healer of others, himself diseased.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.
Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.
Love hurts. " Oh, shut UP!" - pg 123
Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.
All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.
Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned. " It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.