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.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.