When our brain feels too weak to deal with our opponent's objections, our heart answers by casting suspicion on their underlying motives.

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which in no way correspond to our real thoughts.

Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.

Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.