The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.