Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

Great intellects are skeptical.

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of reason: intellectual castration.