Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil. Human, All Too Human
If you seek truth, you will not seek by every means to gain a victory; and if you have found truth, you will have the gain of not being defeated. Fragment
In the One, above and below are the same, [just as] beginning and end are one in the circumference of a circle. That which is in conflict is also in concert; while things differ from one another, they are all contained in the most beautiful Unity. Fragments
It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private. Essays
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