[Heraclitus had] a regal air of certainty.

Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.