The Mother Of Excess Is

We Fear Our Neighbor's Hostile Mood Because We Are Afraid That This Mood Will Lead Him To Penetrate Our Secrets.

Many Other Such Substitutes For War Will Be Discovered, But Perhaps Precisely Thereby It Will Become More And More Obvious That Such A Highly Cultivated And Therefore Necessarily Enfeebled Humanity As That Of Modern Europe Not Only Needs Wars, But The Greatest And Most Terrible Wars, Consequently Occasional Relapses Into Barbarism, Lest, By The Means Of Culture, It Should Lose Its Culture And Its Very Existence.

In The 'in-itself' There Is Nothing Of 'causal Connections', Of 'necessity', Or Of 'psychological Non-freedom'; There The Effect Does Not Follow The Cause, There Is No Rule Or 'law'. It Is We Alone Who Have Devised Cause, Sequence, For-each-other, Relativity, Constraint, Number, Law, Freedom, Motive, And Purpose; And When We Project And Mix This Symbol World Into Things As If It Existed 'in Itself', We Act Once More As We Have Always Acted- Mythologically.

The Inclination To Self-depreciation, To Freely Accepting Being Robbed, Being Duped, And Being Swindled, Could Be The Modesty Of A God Among Men.

Man Alone Resists The Direction Of Gravitation: He Constantly Wants To Fall--upwards.