Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

Alas, where is there still a sea in which one could drown: thus our lament resounds – across shallow swamps.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

No victor believes in chance.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.