Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

i have never pondered over questions that are not questions.

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.