Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.