Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.