The opposite of every truth is just as true.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke

In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.

madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom

Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!