A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to concern yourself! Become objective!"--And Socrates?--And "scientific men"?

Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

The doer alone learneth.

Every relationship that does not raise us up pulls us down, and vice versa; this is why men usually sink down somewhat when they take wives while women are usually somewhat raised up. Overly spiritual men require marriage every bit as much as they resist it as bitter medicine.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.