It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.