Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

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.

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.