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!

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.