The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

Christianity is Platonism for the people.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.