It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.