Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.