Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.

Smooth iceis paradisefor those who dance with expertise.

You must await your thirst and allow it to become complete: otherwise you will never discover your spring, which can never be anyone else's!

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.