Every Word Is A Prejudice.

The View That Honesty Is Something, And Even A Virtue, Belongs, It Is True, To Those Private Opinions Which Are Forbidden In This Age Of Public Opinions.

One Should Not Wrongly Reify 'cause' And 'effect,' As The Natural Scientists Do (and Whoever, Like Them, Now 'naturalizes' In His Thinking), According To The Prevailing Mechanical Doltishness Which Makes The Cause Press And Push Until It 'effects' Its End; One Should Use 'cause' And 'effect' Only As Pure Concepts, That Is To Say, As Conventional Fictions For The Purpose Of Designation And Communication-not For Explanation.

Every Tradition Grows Continually More Venerable, And The More Remote Its Origins, The More This Is Lost Sight Of. The Veneration Paid The Tradition Accumulates From Generation To Generation, Until It At Last Becomes Holy And Excites Awe.

Morality Is Neither Rational Nor Absolute Nor Natural. World Has Known Many Moral Systems, Each Of Which Advances Claims Universality; All Moral Systems Are Therefore Particular, Serving A Specific Purpose For Their Propagators Or Creators, And Enforcing A Certain Regime That Disciplines Human Beings For Social Life By Narrowing Our Perspectives And Limiting Our Horizons.

Just As Soon As We Notice That Someone Has To Force Himself To Pay Attention When Dealing And Talking With Us, We Have A Valid Demonstration That He Does Not Love Us Or That He Does Not Love Us Anymore.