Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?