On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.