About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Because Christianity is a religion of death, it could be treated with the utmost realism, and it could have its orgies, just likethe old religion of nature and life.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.