“I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.”
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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.
Music is essentially useless, as is life.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.