Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

The mouth may lie, alright, but the face it makes nonetheless tells the truth.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.