The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose through him.

As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.

Projection [of our own shadow] makes the whole world a replica of our own unknown face.

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality.