Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance.

Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.

On every parable you ride to every truth.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.

Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is infinite! / And so he paints what he likes about it. / And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!