Convictions are prisons.

Become who you are!

This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to--become evil!

Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Against boredom even gods struggle in vain.