We count the courtesies accorded us by unpopular people as offenses.

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion