That A Person Cannot And Consequently Will

To Be Ashamed Of One's Immorality: That Is A Step On The Staircase At Whose End One Is Also Ashamed Of One's Morality.

With The Unknown, One Is Confronted With Danger, Discomfort, And Care; The First Instinct Is To Abolish These Painful States. First Principle: Any Explanation Is Better Than None. . . . The Causal Instinct Is Thus Conditional Upon, And Excited By, The Feeling Of Fear. The "why?" Shall, If At All Possible, Not Give The Cause For Its Own Sake So Much As For A Particular Kind Of Cause -- A Cause That Is Comforting, Liberating, And Relieving.

The World Is Poor For Him Who Has Never Been Sick Enough For This 'voluptuousness Of Hell

When A Man Has Just Been Greatly Honored And Has Eaten A Little He Is The Most Generous.

There Is No Pre-established Harmony Between The Furtherance Of Truth And The Well-being Of Mankind.