Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

We attack not only to hurt someone, to defeat him, but perhaps also simply to become conscious of our own strength.

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.