Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Mothers easily become jealous of their sons' friends when they are particularly successful. As a rule a mother loves herself in her son more than she does the son himself.

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.

The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.

But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.