Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves.

Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.