The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

The free man is a warrior.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

I am really very, very tired of everything - more than tired.

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art is far rather to be employed to relieve the mind overburdened with emotions. Out of the illogical comes much good. It is so firmly rooted in the passions, in language, in art, in religion, and generally in everything which gives value to life. It is only the naive people who can believe that the nature of man can be changed into a purely logical one. We have yet to learn that others can suffer, and this can never be completely learned.