If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.