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

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.