Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

Have you noticed there are no interesting people in heaven? -Just a hint to the girls as to where they can find their salvation.

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?