But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

A life without music is an error.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.