We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.