Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

Man makes god in his own image.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.