As a result, nature is something entirely different from what comes to mind when we invoke its name.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.