Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves.

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!