Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues.

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.