“Wisdom is a question of grasping the coherence of things and time, of deciphering oneself, and of penetrating one’s own becoming and dying.
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order later to rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”
