Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.