Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.