The future influences the present just as much as the past.

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Love is more afraid of change than destruction.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.