Nietzsche writes, "A promise made is a debt unpaid.”
Stendhal writes, “Beauty is a promise of happiness.”
Alexander Nehemas elucidates, “Beauty is only a promise of happiness,” meaning it is a promise…
Leo Strauss says, in Persecution and the Art of Writing, that philosophers have more in common with each other than they have with other members of their society or culture, even when they disagree fundamentally about the most basic questions.