Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

People who, out of an inborn moderation, leave every glass standing only half-emptied refuse to admit that everything in the world has its sediments and dregs.

I can be thrown by the wayside, but I'm looking at the stars.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.

Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).