Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.