Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster.

Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.