Quotations

«Don't just propagate, elevate yourself.»

«Modest people have often reason to be.»

«And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain crucify those who devise their own virtue - they hate the lonesome ones»

«The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity»

«Whoever does not know how to lay his will into things at least lays some meaning into them - that means he has the faith that they already obey some will»

«Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes»

«Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.»

«Belief is always most desired, most pressingly needed where there is a lack of will, for the will, as emotion of command, is the distinguishing characteristic of sovereignty and power. That is to say, the less a person knows how to command, the more urgent is his desire for one who commands, who commands sternly - a God, a prince, a caste, a physician, a confessor, a dogma, a party consciene. From whence perhaps it could be inferred that the two world religions, Buddhism and Christianity, might well have had the cause of their rise, and especially of their rapid extension, in an extraordinary malady of the will.»

«Every tiny step forward in the world was formerly made at the cost of mental and physical torture.»

«A married philosopher belongs to comedy.»