What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October.

How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.