Philosopher

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

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

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...

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.