Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

The philosopher caught in the nets of language.

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

"This - is now my way - where is yours"? Thus did I answer those who asked me "the way". For the way - it does not exist!

Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.