If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Only in war are you holy, and when you are robbers and cruel.