Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

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.

It is true that I am carrying out various methods of treatment recommended by doctors and dentists in the hope of dying in the remote future in perfect health.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.