Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

In the case of all other sciences, arts, skills, and crafts, everyone is convinced that a complex and laborious programme of learning and practice is necessary for competence. Yet when it comes to philosophy, there seems to be a currently prevailing prejudice to the effect that, although not everyone who has eyes and fingers, and is given leather and last, is at once in a position to make shoes, everyone nevertheless immediately understands how to philosophize.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Nothing great has been and nothing great can be accomplished without passion. It is only a dead, too often, indeed, a hypocriticalmoralizing which inveighs against the form of passion as such.

Serious occupation is labor that has reference to some want.