In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

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.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.