Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!

Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.