Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.

... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

Hardly anyone still reads nowadays. People make use of the writer only in order to work off their own excess energy on him in a perverse manner, in the form of agreement or disagreement.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.