“When one does not know what one seeks, caution is the surest armour.”
“Yes, one is on the right track when one does not know what one is thinking when one is thinking; everything is handed to one, as it were.”
“-- What, then, does one experience of the You?-- Nothing at all. For one does not experience it.-- What, then, does one know of the You?-- Only everything. For one no longer knows particulars.”
“What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?”
“The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
“There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.”