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

There are highly gifted spirits who are always infertile simply because, owing to a weakness in temperament, they are too impatient to wait out their pregnancy to term.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

Beware in the presence of cats: they never give, they do not even retaliate--they only reply, and purr in doing so.

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

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.