Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.

All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.