And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much.

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.