Lessing, the most honest of theoretical men, dared to say that he took greater delight in the quest for truth than in the truth itself. - Friedrich Nietzsche

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

Whoever wishes to justify [Philosophy] must show ... to what ends a healthy culture uses and has used philosophy.

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.