Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.
We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.
How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].