Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

No man ever wrote more eloquently and luminously [than Heraclitus].

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.