Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it.

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