To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Nietzsche said that the earth has been a madhouse long enough. Without contradicting him we might perhaps soften the expression, and say that philosophy has been long enough an asylum for enthusiasts.