Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.