One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it.

We can destroy only as creators

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds.

Belief in truth begins with doubting all that has hitherto been believed to be true.

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge.