You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

What is it that you love in others?--My hopes.

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.