We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

The last Christian died on a cross.

Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153