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youthful optimism fades, and happiness and confidence evaporate.
He doesn’t know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.
Everyday morality is always a blend, variously proportioned, of perfect morality and other more ambiguous ideas, for the most part religious.
the first loyalty, the second courage and the third, and most important, kindness.
In Cohen’s opinion, the ideas manifest in Nietzsche’s philosophy—the rejection of compassion, the elevation of individuals above the moral order and the triumph of the will—led directly to Nazism.
Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.
A life lived in pursuit of a goal leaves little time for reminiscence.
Human reality, he was beginning to realize, was a series of disappointments, bitterness and pain.
But the past always seems, perhaps wrongly, to be predestined.
