No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

That the world is a divine game and beyond good and evil:Min this the Vedanta philosophy and Heraclitus are my predecessors.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.