Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . . the deranged reason of the little community found quite a frightfully absurd answer: God gave his Son for forgiveness, as a SACRIFICE . . . The SACRIFICE FOR GUILT, and just in its most repugnant and barbarous form - the sacrifice of the innocent for the sins of the guilty! What horrifying heathenism!

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

Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal.

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.

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.