That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.