Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.