Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors that have become worn-out and deprived of their sensuous force, coins that have lost their imprint and are now no longer seen as coins but as metal.

You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.