A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Plato was a bore.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.