“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.”

“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.”

“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.”

“Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.”

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

“One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.”

“My dear friend, what is this our life? A boat that swims in the sea, and all one knows for certain about it is that one day it will capsize. Here we are, two good old boats that have been faithful neighbors, and above all your hand has done its best to keep me from "capsizing"! Let us then continue our voyage—each for the other's sake, for a long time yet, a long time! We should miss each other so much! Tolerably calm seas and good winds and above all sun—what I wish for myself, I wish for you, too, and am sorry that my gratitude can find expression only in such a wish and has no influence at all on wind or weather!”

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. ”

“For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.”

“If you know the why, you can live any how.”