Unexplained, Obscure Matters Are Regarded As More

Young People Love What Is Interesting And Odd, No Matter How True Or False It Is. More Mature Minds Love What Is Interesting And Odd About Truth. Fully Mature Intellects, Finally, Love Truth, Even When It Appears Plain And Simple, Boring To The Ordinary Person; For They Have Noticed That Truth Tends To Reveal Its Highest Wisdom In The Guise Of Simplicity.

To Our Strongest Impulse, To The Tyrant In Us, Not Only Our Reason But Also Our Conscience Yields.

[heraclitus Speaks As If] In Entrancement ... But [also] Truthfully.

Among Human Beings There Is No Greater Banality Than Death. Second In Order, Because It Is Possible To Die Without Being Born, Comes Birth, And Next Comes Marriage.

The Belief In Authority Is The Source Of Conscience; Which Is Therefore Not The Voice Of God In The Heart Of Man, But The Voice Of Some Men In Man.