One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.