Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.

The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life.