<i>Unhappiness</i>. The distinction that lies in being unhappy (<b>as if to feel happy were a sign of shallowness, lack of ambition, ordinariness</b>… - Friedrich Nietzsche

The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

A full and powerful soul not only copes with painful even terrible losses, deprivations, robberies, insults; it emerges from such hells with a greater fullness and powerfulness, and most essential of all with a new increase in the bliss-Fulness of love.

I believe that he who has divined something of the most basic conditions for his growth in love will understand what Dante meant when he wrote over the gate of his inferno: 'I, too, was created by eternal love.

"It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it."