To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly, year after year, without any hope, patiently waiting.
Love is not consolation, it is light.
The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.