When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!