In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sapand seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it--and tries to live off philosophy.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good.