Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.