Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.

I am almost equal to a shadow.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.