Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts.

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

We, however, want to become those we are--human beings who are new, unique, incomparable, who give themselves laws, who create themselves. To that end we must become the best learners and discoverers of everything that is lawful and necessary in the world: we must become physicists in order to be able to be creators in this sense--while hitherto all valuations and ideals have been based on ignorance of physics or were constructed so as to contradict it. Therefore: long live physics! And even more so that which compels us to turn to physics--our honesty!

Few are made for independence, it is the privilege of the strong.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.