"Belief in the truth commences with the doubting of all those "truths" we once believed."

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one.

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

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.