The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.