My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.