One has renounced the great life when one renounces war.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards.

The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.