Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs about them. |
But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. |
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation -- all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration. |
But we do as we have always done: we take whatever is cast into us down into our depths -- for we are deep, we do not forget -- and once more grow clear. . . . |
Called a star's orbit to pursue, What is the darkness, star, to you? |
Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher. |
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. |
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink: he did not die of it but degenerated - into vice |
Christianity makes suffering contagious |
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell |
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. |
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies |
Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior. |
Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty. |
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? |