To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.

Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.