To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands--or gets down.

But eternal liveliness is what counts: what does "eternal life" matter, or life at all?

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.