What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!

Love forgives the lover even his lust.

[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence.

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.