Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

What we know oman today is limited precisely by the extent to which we have regarded him as a machine.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous.

The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.