A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

The problem of culture is seldom grasped correctly. The goal of a culture is not the greatest possible happiness of a people, noris it the unhindered development of all their talents; instead, culture shows itself in the correct proportion of these developments. Its aim points beyond earthly happiness: the production of great works is the aim of culture.

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

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.

He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.