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

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness.

Every man in creating the beautiful appearance of the dream worlds is a perfect artist.

To be the equal of one's opponent-this is the first condition of an honourable duel.

Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.