All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.

Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

Life is fountain of joy; but where the rabble also gather to drink, all wells are poisoned.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

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.