if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.