Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.

An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

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