The concepts “beyond” and “real world” were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality.
I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-.
What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
What makes one heroic? – Going out to meet at the same time one’s highest suffering and one’s highest hope.
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
No artist tolerates reality.
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength – life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.
The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine – love returned.
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
Pity makes suffering contagious.
Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.
One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.