It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.

Those must have all been important to me once. What I am now grew from that. A former self is a fool, an insufferable ass, but he's still human, you'd no more …

It is precisely because we can never really know ourselves, but only guess, that we are so vehement about the good and the evil ascribed to us by others. In ma…