There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Habit is stronger than reason.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.

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.

The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

The living have never shown me how to live.