Every talent must unfold itself in fighting.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.

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

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.