Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?

A philosophical mythology lies concealed in language, which breaks out again at every moment, no matter how cautious we may be.

Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.

The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it.

Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.