What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced "actually": we are richer or poorer on account of it.

Whoever has looked deeply into the world might well guess what wisdom lies in the superficiality of men.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them.