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.