We think that play and fairytales belong to childhood - how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time in our life to live without play and fairytales! We give these things other names, to be sure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidence that they are the same things, for the child too regards play as his work and fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from a pedantic division of life into different stages - as though each brought something new.

That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal.

No artist tolerates reality.

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.

Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.