From what you would know and measure, you must take leave, at least for a time. Only after having left town, you see how high its towers rise above the houses .

Better know nothing than half-know many things

Belief means not wanting to know what is true

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

There is no knowledge of true being. The world is fundamentally in a state of becoming.