Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there areequal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

One who has a why can endure anyhow.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.