In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples.

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons.

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the imagination-and to flee, not like Plato into the land of eternal ideas, into the workshop off the world-creator, feasting one's eyes on the unblemished unbreakable archetypes, but into the rigor mortis off the coldest emptiest concept off all, the concept of being.