We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
Every step forward is made at the cost of mental and physical pain to someone.
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.