Professor Quotes

“The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.”

“Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.”

“Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage.”

“I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!”

“Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.”

“In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.”

“He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.”

“Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.”

“Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!”

“Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.”

“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”

“And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.”

“Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.”

“Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun.”

“Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.”

“Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.”

“Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!”

“A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.”

“I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself”

“What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.”

“What is the strongest cure?--Victory.”

“Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.”

“What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.”

“The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist.”

“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”