There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

Was mich nicht zugrunde richtet, macht mich starker.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.