In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

We talk about taking "pleasure in a thing": but in truth it is pleasure in ourselves, mediated by a thing.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.