“What is right may properly be uttered even twice.”

What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.

Earth’s sweat, the sea.

The sea is the sweat of the earth.

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

Many fires burn below the surface.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.

But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

Each man believes only his experience.

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.

I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him.

Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.

Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I’m able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I’m able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.

Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.