You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

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.

No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Science and art have that in common that everyday things seem to them new and attractive.

We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner