How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.

All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.