He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

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

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Thinking has to be learned in the way dancing has to be learned.