I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones.

A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary streams. It is so, also, with all intellectual greatness, It is only a question of someone indicating the direction to be followed by so many affluent; not whether he was richly or poorly gifted originally.

Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.' This concept furnishes the prototype of all theories of equal rights.