Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

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

Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only.