Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Everything good is instinct--and, as a result, easy, necessary, free.