What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man.

Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

Success has always been a great liar.

Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!