Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste.
The melancholia of everything completed!
I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness.
The value of life itself cannot be estimated.
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
How much beer is in German intelligence?
The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in “the truth,” and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-“il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien”-I wager he finds nothing!
There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?
And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman’s breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant.
If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.
Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself.
Every word is a preconceived judgment.
Faith is the path of least resistance.
Certitude drives people mad.
The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.
Whenever the strength of a belief strongly steps into the foreground, we must infer a certain weakness of demonstrability and the improbability of that belief.
There is no more dreary or more repulsive creature than the man who has evaded his genius.