Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

We have to be careful that in throwing out the devil, we don't throw out the best part of ourselves.

Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we "really" experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.