We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Sleep is no mean art.

If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

It is with artworks as it is with wine: it is much better when we do not need either one, when we stick with water, and when out of our own inner fire, the inner sweetness of our own soul, we turn the water over and over again into wine ourselves.