In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

Both classically- and romantically-minded spirits-inasmuch as these two species always exist-occupy themselves with a vision of the future: but the former do so out of a strength of their age, the latter out of its weakness.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.