The Philosopher Caught In The Nets Of

It Is Not When Truth Is Dirty, But When It Is Shallow, That The Lover Of Knowledge Is Reluctant To Step Into Its Waters.

The Most Unambiguous Sign That A Person Holds Men In Low Esteem Is This, That He Either Acknowledges Them Merely As Means To His Ends Or Does Not Acknowledge Them At All.

A Good Aphorism Is Too Hard For The Tooth Of Time, And Is Not Worn Away By All The Centuries, Although It Serves As Food For Every Epoch.

In Every Philosophical School, Three Thinkers Succeed One Another In The Following Way: The First Produces Out Of Himself The Sapand Seed, The Second Draws It Out Into Threads And Spins A Synthetic Web, And The Third Waits In This Web For The Sacrificial Victims That Are Caught In It--and Tries To Live Off Philosophy.

When You Stare Into An Abyss For A Long Time, The Abyss Also Stares Into You.