Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

The criminal is quite frequently not equal to his deed: he belittles and slanders it.