Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.

It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.