Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.