Children from humble families must be taught how to command just as other children must be taught how to obey.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

As regards the celebrated struggle for life, it seems to me for the present to have been rather asserted than proved. It does occur, but as the exception; the general aspect of life is not hunger and distress, but rather wealth, luxury, even absurd prodigality -- where there is a struggle it is a struggle for power.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.