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

"Plus d'un qui n'a pu liberer ses propres chaines a su pourtant en liberer son ami."

"All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects."

"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."

"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

"In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge."

"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."

"You say, it's dark. And in truth, I did place a cloud before your sun. But do you not see how the edges of the cloud are already glowing and turning light."

"Plato was a bore."

"I am one thing, my writings are another."

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."

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

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."