Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.

Happiness too is inevitable.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.