It is the evening that questions thus from within me.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man.

The one seeks a midwife to deliver his thoughts, the other, someone to assist: thus a good conversation comes into being.

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

A married philosopher belongs to comedy.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.