The End Of Pain We Take As

Boredom Is The Most Sublime Of All Human Emotions Because It Expresses The Fact That The Human Spirit, In A Certain Sense, Is Greater Than The Entire Universe. Boredom Is An Expression Of A Profound Despair At Not Finding Anything That Can Satisfy The Soul's Boundless Needs.

Everything Since Homer Has Improved, Except Poetry.

Of Men Eternally Dear! Happy Indeed If You Have Breathing-space From Pain: Blessed All The More If Death Should Heal You Of The Pain You Fear!

The Commonplace Expression That Life Is Nothing But A Play Is Verified Above All In This: The World Speaks Absolutely Consistently In One Way And Acts Absolutely Consistently In Another.

He Who Travels Much Has This Advantage Over Others – That The Things He Remembers Soon Become Remote, So That In A Short Time They Acquire The Vague And Poetical Quality Which Is Only Given To Other Things By Time. He Who Has Not Traveled At All Has This Disadvantage – That All His Memories Are Of Things Present Somewhere, Since The Places With Which All His Memories Are Concerned Are Present.