Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is.

Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

Even the bravest only rarely have courage for what they really know.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.