I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

We should conserve evil just as we should conserve the forests. It is true that by thinning and clearing the forests the earth grew warmer.

A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!

Nothing can be done about it: every master has but a single pupil--and he will not stay loyal to him--for he is also destined to become a master.