He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God.

Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.