One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you.

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.