What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

A real fox calls sour not only those grapes that he cannot reach but also those that he has reached and taken away from others.

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.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.