We fear our neighbor's hostile mood because we are afraid that this mood will lead him to penetrate our secrets.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.