If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
Oaths are the fossils of piety.
The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity.
My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.
Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.