Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.

All words are prejudices.

Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves