[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.