We have art in order not to die of the truth.

You say that I should be your teacher! See to it that I am your pinion and not your brake.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies

Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.