There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.

Anyone who loves his neighbor within the limits of the world is doing no more and no less injustice than someone who loves himself within the limits of the world.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.