Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts.

Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

We cannot even reproduce our thoughts entirely in words.

We ought to face our destiny with courage.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.