One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

No more fiction, for now we calculate; but that we may calculate, we had to make fiction first.

My genius is in my nostrils.

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.