A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who un… - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. Even if my philosophy does not extend to discovering anything new, it does nevertheless possess the courage to regard as questionable what has long been thought true.

He who is enamoured of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.