All words are prejudices.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.