Whatever we think about and question a lot becomes questionable.

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"!

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.

THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The middlemen almost unconsciously adulterate the food which they supply. It is because of teachers that so little is learned, and that so badly.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.