Do I advise you to love the neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from the neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for the neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself.

Those who create are hard of heart.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.