Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

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.

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached.