Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.