» In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
» The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
» Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
» In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
» The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart --not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''
» It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.
» He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
» What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
» I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ''divine service.''
» We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.