We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people.

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.