Liberalism Is The Transformation Of

Anyone Who Has Looked Deeply Into The World May Guess How Much Wisdom Lies In The Superficiality Of Men. The Instinct That Preserves Them Teaches Them To Be Flighty Light, And False.

The Bite Of Conscience, Like The Bite Of A Dog Into A Stone, Is A Stupidity.

I Devote Myself To What I Love The Most, And For This Very Reason I Hesitate To Designate It With Lofty Words: I Do Not Want To Risk Believing That It Is A Sublime Compulsion, A Law, Which I Obey: I Love What I Love The Most Too Much To Wish To Appear To It As One Compelled.

There Still Shines The Most Important Nuance By Virtue Of Which The Noble Felt Themselves To Be Men Of A Higher Rank. They Designate Themselves Simply By Their Superiority In Power (as "the Powerful," "the Masters," "the Commanders") Or By The Most Clearly Visible Signs Of This Superiority, For Example, As "the Rich," "the Possessors" (this Is The Meaning Of 'arya,' And Of Corresponding Words In Iranian And Slavic).

I Enquire Now As To The Genesis Of A Philologist And Assert The Following: 1. A Young Man Cannot Possibly Know What Greeks And Romans Are. 2. He Does Not Know Whether He Is Suited For Finding Out About Them.