Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.

For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window, and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.