One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

if a person wishes to achieve peace of mind and happiness then they should acquire faith, but if they want to be a disciple of truth, which can be "frightening and ugly,” then they need to search.