Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.