Self-knowledge Comes From Knowing Other Men.

Few People Have The Imagination For Reality.

No One Can Take From Us The Joy Of The First Becoming Aware Of Something, The So-called Discovery. But If We Also Demand The Honor, It Can Be Utterly Spoiled For Us, For We Are Usually Not The First. What Does Discovery Mean, And Who Can Say That He Has Discovered This Or That? After All It's Pure Idiocy To Brag About Priority; For It's Simply Unconscious Conceit, Not To Admit Frankly That One Is A Plagiarist.

Few Are Open To Conviction, But The Majority Of Men Are Open To Persuasion

Two Souls, Alas, Are Housed Within My Breast, And Each Will Wrestle For The Mastery There.

Deeply Earnest And Thoughtful People Stand On Shaky Footing With The Public.