Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?

And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness.

This mother needs happy, reputable children, and that one needs unhappy ones: otherwise she cannot show her kindness as a mother.