I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

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

Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

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