Only ideas won by walking have any value.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.

Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question "why" is lacking. What does nihilism mean?--that the supreme values devaluate themselves.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.