I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly. To execute every sort of curve and angle with a light impulse, a flying mathematics - that is so distinct a happiness that it has permanently suffused my basic sense of happiness.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.