The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.