Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Noble and wise men once believed in the music of the spheres: noble and wise men still continue to believe in the "moral significance of existence." But one day even this sphere-music will no longer be audible to them! They will wake up and take note that their ears were dreaming.

To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.

Become who you are. Make what only you can make.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.