History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity

Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for the acts.

''Reason'' is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you must allure the senses to it

What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.