Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.