Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

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

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.