It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

When you gaze long into the Abyss of Sustainability, the Abyss of Sustainability also gazes into you.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time.