The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

Written kisses never arrive at their destination; the ghosts drink them up along the way.

Like tired dogs they stand there, because they use up all their strength in remaining upright in one's memory.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

From outside one will always triumphantly impress theories upon the world and then fall straight into the ditch one has dug, but only from inside will one keep oneself and the world quiet and true.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.