We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Let others think what they like: for me, the culmination of life consists of a pure and subtly dramatic passion.

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

From my point of view it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.