I am not a man, I am dynamite!

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth. Thus I beg and beseech you. Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do—back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning.