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.

My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.