This is the temple of intelligence and I am its hight priest. I have always been, despite the words of the proverb, a prophet in ... » Go

A rabid mania for originality is rife in the modern intellectual world and characterizes all individual effort. We would rather err with genius than hit ... » Go

Several times in the devious course of these essays I have defined, in spite of my horror of definitions, my own position with regard to ... » Go

The fact that society is guilty aggravates the guilt of each one, and he is most guilty who most is sensible of the guilt. Christ, ... » Go

Instead of renouncing the world in order that we may dominate it … what we ought to do is to dominate the world in order ... » Go

Need is that I bring to a conclusion, for the present at any rate, these essays that threaten to become like a tale that has ... » Go

What I call the tragic sense of life in men and peoples is at any rate our tragic sense of life, that of Spaniards and ... » Go

All knowledge has an ultimate object. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question. ... » Go

Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and ... » Go

To propose to a man that he should be someone else, that he should become someone else, is to propose to him that he should cease to ... » Go

It has often been said that every man who has suffered misfortunes prefers to be himself, even with his misfortunes, rather than to be someone ... » Go

In most of the histories of philosophy that I know, philosophic systems are presented to us as if growing out of one another spontaneously, and ... » Go

I am a man; no other man do I deem a stranger. For to me the adjective humanus is no less suspect than its abstract ... » Go

There you have that “thief of energies,” as he [Nietzsche] so obtusely called Christ who sought to wed nihilism with the struggle for existence, and ... » Go

Only the feeble resign themselves to final death and substitute some other desire for the longing for personal immortality. In the strong the zeal for ... » Go