He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.