I had already experienced plenty of loneliness. Now I sensed that even deeper loneliness existed, and that it was inescapable. Demian
Let us... be careful of admitting into our souls the notion that there is no truth or health or soundness in any arguments at all; but let us rather say that there is as yet no health in us, and that we must quit ourselves like men and do our best to gain health—you and all other men with a view to the whole of your future life, and I myself with a view to death. The Trials Of Socrates
As nothing is straighter than that which is straight, so nothing is juster than that which is just. Fragment
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. Parerga and Paralipomena
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