You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.