Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further.

It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will.

Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.