How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

When a man is in love he endures more than at other times; he submits to everything.

There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.