The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.