"Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress."

"Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad."

"Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to…"

"Rohde became more and more firmly bound to the bourgeois world, its institutions and accepted opinions. … The contrast between the two natures makes Rohde and Nietzsche exemplary representatives of tw…"

"History and experience tells us that moral progress cannot come in comfortable and in complacent times, but out of trial and out of confusion."