The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .

Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

And I offer you this parable: Not a few who sought to cast out their devil entered into the swine themselves.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.