Where there are two people, there is untruth.

If the ethical - that is, social morality- is the highest ... then no categories are needed other than the Greek philosophical categories.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by everybody, down to the last simpleton, uses them. But a person who follows through an idea in his mind is, and always will be, essentially unpopular. That is why Socrates was unpopular, though he did not use any special terms, for to grasp and hold his 'ignorance' requires greater vital effort than understanding the whole of Hegel's philosophy.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.