How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence.

That the world is not the embodiment of an eternal rationality can be conclusively proved by the fact that the piece of the worldthat we know--I mean our human reason--is not so very rational. And if it is not eternally and completely wise and rational, then the rest of the world will not be either; here the conclusion a minori ad majus, a parte ad totum applies, and does so with decisive force.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap

It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all.