Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.