When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.

Fear is the mother of morality.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures.

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.