We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.

Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

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

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.