One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a ‘happy’ one?
Often I have thought of the day when I gazed for the first time at the sea. The sea is vast, the sea is wide, my eyes roved far and wide and longed to be free. But there was the horizon. Why a horizon, when I wanted the infinite from life?
What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.
Everything is politics.
Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.
We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
I tell them that if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.