The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

Man is the cruelest animal.

Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy.

It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

Madness is the exception in individuals but the rule in groups.