Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.