Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.

To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!