What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.