Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

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

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

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.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.