[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health.

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.