
“He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.”
Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das Lebendigste.
“Sokrates und Alcibiades”
“He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.”
Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das Lebendigste.
“Sokrates und Alcibiades”
"Wishful Thinking – Or Hopeful Dreaming?" (1968)
Letter to Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (15 June 1877), as quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) Elizabeth M. Knowles, p. 642; this has also been published without the word "insipid".
1870s
Context: No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
“The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most.”
Source: The Final Empire
“The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing…”
Source: The Secret of the Indian
“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”
AIDS and Its Metaphors, (1989), ch. 4, p. 125, Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0-312-42013-7
AIDS and Its Metaphors was later published in combination with Illness As Metaphor. This combined edition is the one referenced here.