In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going.

The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.