If You Stare Into The Abyss Long

Only As An Aesthetic Product Can The World Be Justified To All Eternity.

What Is It That You Love In Others?--my Hopes.

Comparing Man And Woman On The Whole, One May Say: Woman Would Not Possess A Genius For Ornamentation If She Did Not Also Possessan Instinct For The Secondary Role.

The Suffering Of Genius And Its Value. The Artistic Genius Desires To Give Pleasure, But If His Mind Is On A Very High Plane He Does Not Easily Find Anyone To Share His Pleasure; He Offers Entertainment But Nobody Accepts It. That Gives Him, In Certain Circumstances, A Comically Touching Pathos; For He Has No Right To Force Pleasure On Men. He Pipes, But None Will Dance: Can That Be Tragic?

Even Today Many Educated People Think That The Victory Of Christianity Over Greek Philosophy Is A Proof Of The Superior Truth Of The Former - Although In This Case It Was Only The Coarser And More Violent That Conquered The More Spiritual And Delicate. So Far As Superior Truth Is Concerned, It Is Enough To Observe That The Awakening Sciences Have Allied Themselves Point By Point With The Philosophy Of Epicurus, But Point By Point Rejected Christianity.