Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.