Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'.

We can destroy only as creators

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.