Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Nothing is more pathological in our pathological modernity than this disease of Christian pity.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

The most welcome joke to me is the one that takes the place of a heavy, not altogether innocuous thought, at once a cautionary hint of the finger and a flash of the eye.

In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.

All philosophy is a form of confession.