Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.

There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

The true way goes over a line that, rather than spanning heights, is hardly above the ground. It appears more decidedly to make one trip than to be walked along.

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.