About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.