But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.