“Oh happy he who still can hope in our dayto breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error!What we don't know is really what we need,and what we know is of no use to us whatever!”

“I have, alas! Philosophy,Medicine, Jurisprudence too,And to my cost Theology,With ardent labor, studied through.And here I stand, with all my lore,Poor fool, no wiser than before.”

“Ah yes, if I could have a magic cloakto whisk me off to foreign landsI should not trade it for the richest robes,nor for the mantle of a king.”

“We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!”

“When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be We make him what he should be.”

“We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.”

“Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited.”