No artist tolerates reality.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.