Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.