Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

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

Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

Do you suppose that sacrifice is the hallmark of moral action?--Just stop to consider whether sacrifice is not involved in every action that is done with deliberation, the worst as well as the best.