Wit Is The Epitaph Of An Emotion.

It Is A Self-deception Of Philosophers And Moralists To Imagine That They Escape Decadence By Opposing It. That Is Beyond Their Will; And, However Little They Acknowledge It, One Later Discovers That They Were Among The Most Powerful Promoters Of Decadence.

Christianity Remains To This Day The Greatest Misfortune Of Humanity.

Man Is The Cruelest Animal.

... Hitherto We Have Been Permitted To Seek Beauty Only In The Morally Good - A Fact Which Sufficiently Accounts For Our Having Found So Little Of It And Having Had To Seek About For Imaginary Beauties Without Backbone! - As Surely As The Wicked Enjoy A Hundred Kinds Of Happiness Of Which The Virtuous Have No Inkling, So Too They Possess A Hundred Kinds Of Beauty; And Many Of Them Have Not Yet Been Discovered.

I Enquire Now As To The Genesis Of A Philologist And Assert The Following: 1. A Young Man Cannot Possibly Know What Greeks And Romans Are. 2. He Does Not Know Whether He Is Suited For Finding Out About Them.