“War is father of all, and king of all. He renders some gods, others men; he makes some slaves, others free.”

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Dog bark at what they don’t understand.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.

The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.

When men dream, each has his own world. When they are awake, they have a common world.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.

I have tried in my way to be free.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.

Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.

Freedom is a mystic voyage we must embark on. A journey that swallows us into the oesophagus of aching dreams, until we reach the belly of hope.