"...for sounds have no *fixed point in space*. At least we connect sound with movements, and in that way they serve to alert us to those movements, appearing to make them necessary and natural." - p. 72
Certainly it is desirable that men should again learn to be silent. But if there must be gossip…then let it be about nonsense and trifles—one's neighbour's faults are and ought to be too serious a matter; to talk about them frivolously…is therefore a sign of corruption - p. 269
"...otherwise it would have to learn, and teach, how **worthless** it is to love others for the sake of one's own advantage, and only to the extent that one does this is imprudent to hope all things." - p. 241
"...men who do not know themselves and consequently do not know that they do not know others; those who know, those with insight, never act in this way." - p. 217
"But what, then, is love? Love means to presuppose love; to have love means to **presuppose love in others**; to be loving means to presuppose that **others are loving**. Let us understand each other." - p. 211
"But what, then, is love? Love means to presuppose love; to have love means to **presuppose love in others**; to be loving means to presuppose that **others are loving**. Let us understand each other." - p. 211
"It scarcely ever occurs to a man shamelessly to speak evil about loving; more common, however, is the deception whereby men deceive themselves out of really coming to love." - p. 159
"For to be able to love a man in spite of his weaknesses and errors and imperfections is *not perfect love*; it is rather **to be able to find him lovable** in spite of and together with his weakness and errors and imperfections. Let us understand each other..." - p. 156
"What more loathsome combination is possible than love—and falsity! Yet this combination is *impossible*, for to love falsely is to **hate**." - p. 150
"'I have done what was *mine* to do. Whether or not I have accomplished anything, I do not know. I do not know if I have done anyone any good. But I do know that I have **existed for them;** I know that because they have **scoffed at me**.'" - p. 94
"On the other hand, the measure of a man's fundamental disposition is this: how far is what he understands from what he does, how great is the **distance** between his understanding and his action." - p. 88
"For doubtless the poet loves solitude—he loves it so that in solitude he may discover the lost happiness of erotic love and friendship, just as one goes to a dark place in order to see the wonder of the stars." - p. 75