A vocation is the backbone of life.

What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

One has to know the size of one's stomach.

I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite!

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.