Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?

It quite often happens that the old man is subject to the delusion of a great moral renewal and rebirth, and from this experience he passes judgments on the work and course of his life, as if he had only now become clear-sighted; and yet the inspiration behind this feeling of well-being and these confident judgements is not wisdom, but weariness .

The moral earth, too, is round! The moral earth, too, has its antipodes! The antipodes, too, have their right to exist! There is still another world to be discovered--and more than one! Set sail, you philosophers!

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.