You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!

It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.