What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!

We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature.

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.