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

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.

I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.