The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.

For our self respect depends upon our ability to make requital, for good or for evil.

Fear is the mother of morality.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

We come to recognize that playfulness, as a philosophical stance, can be very serious indeed; and moreover, that it possesses an unfailing capacity to arouse ridicule and hostility in those among us who crave certainty, reverence, and restraint.

Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.