The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.