[Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust.

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry.

Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Great intellects are skeptical.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.