I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths.

Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.