The English Are The People Of Consummate

If It Is True To Say Of The Lazy That They Kill Time, Then It Is Greatly To Be Feared That An Era Which Sees Its Salvation In Public Opinion, This Is To Say Private Laziness, Is A Time That Really Will Be Killed: I Mean That It Will Be Struck Out Of The History Of The True Liberation Of Life. How Reluctant Later Generations Will Be To Have Anything To Do With The Relics Of An Era Ruled, Not By Living Men, But By Pseudo-men Dominated By Public Opinion.

We Deceive Ourselves When Giving Respect To The Person For Whom We Have Surrendered Ourselves, When We Respectively Expect Them To Be As We Would Wish Them To Be.

Those That Achieve Anything That Looks Beyond The Vision And Thinking Of Their Peers Provoke Jealousy And Hatred Disguised As The Ordinary.

How Can Anyone Become A Thinker Unless He Spends At Least A Third Of Every Day Away From Passions, People, And Books?

Morality Makes Stupid.- Custom Represents The Experiences Of Men Of Earlier Times As To What They Supposed Useful And Harmful - But The Sense For Custom (morality) Applies, Not To These Experiences As Such, But To The Age, The Sanctity, The Indiscussability Of The Custom. And So This Feeling Is A Hindrance To The Acquisition Of New Experiences And The Correction Of Customs: That Is To Say, Morality Is A Hindrance To The Development Of New And Better Customs: It Makes Stupid.