Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.

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.

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

Modern marriage has lost its meaning--consequently it is being abolished.