Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

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.

Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins