Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing; and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into a branch of knowledge. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse — until at last the worst of all arrives.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guilty of it; and other insipidities of the same kind; or else they make the nonsensical remark that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

A man’s face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man’s thoughts and aspirations.