There are no facts, only interpretations.

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

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

Plato was a bore.

Envy and jealousy are the private parts of the human soul. Perhaps the comparison can be extended.