Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

The world will be saved by beauty.

But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

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.