Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which … can be called “public” or “popular” opinion. What is Philosophy?
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable. Discourses
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. Counsels and Maxims
To tell my story I have to start far in the past. If I could, I’d have to go back much farther yet, to the very earliest years of my childhood and even beyond them to my distant origins. Demian
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