I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think. After a time it always seems as if they want to banish my self from myself and rob me of my soul.

“I do not believe that an “impulseto knowledge” is the father of philosophy; but…”

“بل الواضحون والشجعان والشفافون, أولئك هم فى نظرى أكثر الكتومين فطنة, إذ عميقة ه…”

“What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.”

“Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that …”