The finest and healthiest thing about science is, as in the mountains, the brisk air blowing around in it.--The spiritually delicate (such as artists) shun and slander science owing to this air.

We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit.