Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.

One should steal only where one cannot rob.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.