What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.

I no longer want to walk on worn soles.

What is bad? -Everything that arises from weakness.