The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from "justifying" ourselves.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!

To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

The humanity of famous intellectuals lies in being wrong with gracious courtesy when dealing with those who are not famous.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?