If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

[Heraclitus speaks as if] in entrancement ... but [also] truthfully.