Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city.

Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal.