“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.”

“If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees.”

“The kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.”

“In this way though he has his place above them, men do not feel his weight, nor though he has his place before them, do they feel it an injury to them.”

“True words are not fancy. Fancy words are not true. The good do not debate. Debaters are not good.”

“The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.”

“Under heaven all can see beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness. All can know good as good only because there is evil.”