One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had touched a problem, and while supposing he had solved it, he had created and obstacle to its solution. Now, with every new knowledge we stumble over flint-like and petrified words and, in so doing, break a leg sooner than a word.

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.