I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;’Twere better nothing would begin.Thus everything that that your terms, sin,Destruction, evil represent—That is my proper element.

What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a new, stark, more nearly naked, and more questionable aspect. The contraction of man’s horizons amounts to a...

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives – the life of thought, and that of reality.

Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against.