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.

He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

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

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

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

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!