All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Many are obstinate with regard to the pathway once they have set upon it, few with regard to the goal.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

“Evil men have no songs.” How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.