Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep the truth is that they are not even shallow.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.