Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.