For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.