Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Man knows much more than he understands.

Nietzsche's "will to power" and "will to seem" embrace many of our views, which again resemble in some respects the views of Féré and the older writers, according to whom the sensation of pleasure originates in a feeling of power, that of pain in a feeling of feebleness.