Everyone who enjoys supposes that the tree was concerned with the fruit, but it was really concerned with the seed. -In this lies the difference between all those who create and those who enjoy.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

Some men are born posthumously.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.