The rational and the irrational appear such in a different way to different persons, just as the good and the bad, the profitable and the unprofitable. Discourses
Which is it: is man one of God's blunders, or is God one of man's blunders? Twilight of the Idols
By the sensuous, the flesh, Christianity understands selfishness. A conflict between spirit and flesh is inconceivable unless there is a rebellious spirit on the side of flesh, with which the spirit then contends; similarly, a conflict between spirit and a stone or between spirit and a tree is inconceivable. Works of Love
They who have a care of their souls, and do not merely live in the fashions of the body, say farewell to all this; they will not walk in the ways of the blind: and when philosophy offers them purification and release from evil, they feel that they ought not resist her influence, and to her they incline, and whither she leads they follow her. The Trials Of Socrates
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