I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

Our sense of the tragic waxes and wanes with our sensuality.

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.