The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

In the dark, time feels different than when it is light.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.