Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

We cannot live without valuing: but we can live without valuing what you value.

What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.