The noble soul reveres itself

This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.