Reading Means Borrowing.

Nothing Makes One Old So Quickly As The Ever-present Thought That One Is Growing Older.

It Is Certainly Not A Matter Of Indifference Whether I Learn Something Without Effort Or Finally Arrive At It Myself Through My System Of Thought. In The Latter Case Everything Has Roots, In The Former It Is Merely Superficial.

Ideas Too Are A Life And A World.

To Read Means To Borrow; To Create Out Of One S Readings Is Paying Off One's Debts.

We Have To Believe That Everything Has A Cause, As The Spider Spins Its Web In Order To Catch Flies. But It Does This Before It Knows There Are Such Things As Flies.