One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.

Here the spirit becomes a lion who would conquer his freedom and be master… Who is the great dragon whom the spirit will no longer call lord and go? ‘Thou shalt’ is the name of the great dragon. But the spirit of the lion says, ‘I will.

Art is the great stimulus to life.