Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books that he already knows. For what one lacks access to from experience one will have no ear.

Better know nothing than half-know many things

Belief means not wanting to know what is true

From what you would know and measure, you must take leave, at least for a time. Only after having left town, you see how high its towers rise above the houses .

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books

There are things you can't learn by books, you just have to experience youself