Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!

Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?