I could only believe in a God who could dance... And now a God dances through me.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.