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

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

“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!”

“see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation”

“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.”

“You at -all things considered- what you are. Put on your head perukes with myriad curls, stalk about on foot-high stilts, still what you are, you must always remain.”

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.”