We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation.

But let me open up my heart to you completely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear not being a god! Hence, there areno gods. I drew this conclusion, to be sure--but now it draws me.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

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.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.