The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

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.

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive