We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usu... - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises."

"I consist of body and soul - in the worlds of a child. And why shouldn't we speak like children? But the enlightened, the knowledgealbe would say: I am body through and through, nothing more; and the soul is just a word for something on the body."

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."