Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

At the very moment when someone is beginning to take philosophy seriously, the whole world believes the opposite.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Mathematics is merely the means to a general and ultimate knowledge of man.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.