Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

Morality in Europe today is herd-morality

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.