The value of life itself cannot be estimated.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

Lying very still and thinking very little is the most inexpensive medicine for all the sicknesses of the soul, and when administered with good intentions it grows more and more pleasant with each passing hour.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.