In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.

Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.