"If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people."


A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is not for us necessarily an objection to a judgment. The question is to what extent it is life-promoting, life-preserving, species preserving, perhaps even species cultivating. To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that cetainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.


"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
-H. L. Mencken


"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."
-Franz Schubert


"While we are postponing, life speeds by."


"Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience."
-Dr. Laurence J. Peter


You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."
-Scott Adams