Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind...They were merely …

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

History is nothing but assisted and recorded memory. It might almost be said to be no science at all, if memory and faith in memory were not what science neces…

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the tw…

It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - …

Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum, quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.