Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?