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

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.