All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

When thou goest to woman, take thy whip.