It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.