Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

The strongest and most evil spirits have to date advanced mankind the most: they always rekindled the sleeping passions - all orderly arranged society lulls the passions to sleep; they always reawakened the sense of comparison, of contradiction, of delight in the new, the adventurous, the untried; they compelled men to set opinion against opinion, ideal plan against ideal plan.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.