Kenzo

“These 'orgies of pride' kept growing in Nietzsche, especially from The Joyful Wisdom onwards, and made him regard all craving for pleasure or happiness as a high road towards weakness or even spiritual slavery. His ideal became the true warrior: free, virile, and full of contempt for easy comfort. The measure of freedom itself became, in his opinion, above all the resistance which had to be overcome in order to 'remain uppermost'.”
― Janko Larvin

“One of Kant’s most telling observations about beauty is that it 'pleases universally without a concept,' which is to say that 'there can... be no rule in accordance with which someone could be compelled to acknowledge something as beautiful.' That means that no account of why something is beautiful can ever be enough to prove that others should agree with me.”
― Alexander Nehamas, Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

“He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus