The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.