Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art, and with all those who, simultaneously, previously, or subsequently, receive the same artistic impression. Art is a human activity- that one man consciously by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are touched by these feelings and also experience them.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.