He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Do not be deceived! The busiest people harbor the greatest weariness, their restlessness is weakness--they no longer have the capacity for waiting and idleness.

Discontent is the seed of ethics.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.