Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.