The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Industriousness and conscientiousness are often at odds, because industriousness wants to pick the still sour fruit from the tree,while conscientiousness lets it hang there too long, until it falls and bruises.

Christianity is religion for the executioner.

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.