History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.

In art the end does not sanctify the means: but sacred means employed here can sanctify the end.

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy.