Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside - from others. We do not accept it willingly.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
