Analytic And Romantic Understanding Should Be United

Mountains Should Be Climbed With As Little Effort As Possible And Without Desire. The Reality Of Your Own Nature Should Determine The Speed. If You Become Restless, Speed Up. If You Become Winded, Slow Down. You Climb The Mountain In An Equilibrium Between Restlessness And Exhaustion. Then, When You're No Longer Thinking Ahead, Each Footstep Isn't Just A Means To An End But A Unique Event In Itself. To Live Only For Some Future Goal Is Shallow. It's The Sides Of The Mountains Which Sustain Life, Not The Top.

Between The Subject And The Object Lies The Value.

The Range Of Human Knowledge Today Is So Great That We're All Specialists And The Distance Between Specializations Has Become So Great That Anyone Who Seeks To Wander Freely Between Them Almost Has To Forego Closeness With The People Around Him.

If Someone's Ungrateful And You Tell Him He's Ungrateful, Okay, You've Called Him A Name. You Haven't Solved Anything.

Socrates Is Not Just Expounding Noble Ideas In A Vacuum. He Is In The Middle Of A War Between Those Who Think Truth Is Absolute And Those Who Think Truth Is Relative. He Is Fighting That War With Everything He Has.