Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?