It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.