If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

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

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.