Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.