Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

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.