Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

You shall become the person you are.

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.

Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself.

Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.