In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

To become wise you have to want to experience certain experiences, and so to run into their open jaws. This is very dangerous, tobe sure; many a "wise man" has been eaten up in doing so.

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine.

It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!