Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!

Every god-man created his own god: and there is no worse enmity on earth than that between gods.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young again!

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

All signs of superhuman nature appear in man as illness or insanity.