Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride - they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

If you look long enough into the void, the void begins to look back through you.

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.