Only The Most Acute And Active Animals

All Philosophers Make The Common Mistake Of Taking Contemporary Man As Their Starting Point And Of Trying, Through An Analysis Of Him, To[21] Reach A Conclusion. "man" Involuntarily Presents Himself To Them As An Aeterna Veritas As A Passive Element In Every Hurly-burly, As A Fixed Standard Of Things. Yet Everything Uttered By The Philosopher On The Subject Of Man Is, In The Last Resort, Nothing More Than A Piece Of Testimony Concerning Man During A Very Limited Period Of Time.

Does Wisdom Perhaps Appear On The Earth As A Raven Which Is Inspired By The Smell Of Carrion?

In The 'in-itself' There Is Nothing Of 'causal Connections', Of 'necessity', Or Of 'psychological Non-freedom'; There The Effect Does Not Follow The Cause, There Is No Rule Or 'law'. It Is We Alone Who Have Devised Cause, Sequence, For-each-other, Relativity, Constraint, Number, Law, Freedom, Motive, And Purpose; And When We Project And Mix This Symbol World Into Things As If It Existed 'in Itself', We Act Once More As We Have Always Acted- Mythologically.

You Are Rewarding A Teacher Poorly If You Remain Always A Pupil.

If God Had Wanted To Become An Object Of Love, He Would First Of All Have Had To Forgo Judging And Justice : A Judge, And Even A Gracious Judge, Is No Object Of Love.