Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.