He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.

Writing [for the novelist] is not an activity, but a condition. That is why one simply can't resume the work when one has a job and a free half-day. Reading is the conveyance of this condition.

You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!

Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion only one dress and one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.