A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without ...a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows no ...deep feelings of inadequacy or longing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But how do we recognize ourselves? How can man know himself? He is a dark and hidden thing; whereas the hare is said to have seven... skins, man can take off seven times seventy skins and still not be able to say: "That is you as you really are, that is no longer mere appearance." Besides, it is a painful and dangerous undertaking to dig down into oneself in this way and to descend violently and directly into the shaft of one's being. How easily he could injure himself doing this, so that no doctor could cure him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosop...her, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this ...age of public opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »