“A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.”
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Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
