Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. Concessions and tolerance and equality would thus have really led to peace, and to peace of the most radical kind, the peace of moral extinction.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.