It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said.
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic.
The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.