Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together.

Idleness is the beginning of all psychology. What? Could it be that psychology is ? a vice?

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves.